Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Team A:--lc, Barnes; It Durwood; lg, smith; c, J. Fisher; rg, Gudaitis; rt, Stannard; re, Garland; tb, Richards; fb, Johnson; wb, Wilson; qb, Anderson...
...turned up the collar of his coat, and watched the crowds milling their way across Anderson Bridge. And the wind was blowing dirty scraps of programs and torn tickets between his feet. Dreams are grand, he smiled wanly and thought of the game. All-Americans that Pre-Flight team has been, big fellows who danced up and down when they came out on the field. He remembered the tense voices about him in the stands, laughing too quickly as they predicted which part of the first quarter the third Pre-Flight touchdown would come. Only they didn't score...
...Cummings, substituting for the injured Don Forte, played a whale of a game, as did Charley Gudaitis, Jack Fisher, and Swede Anderson . . . Only Chapel Hill casualty was Most Landsberg, formerly wingback at Cornell ... Cummings did a job on the ex-Ithacan with a hard, high tackle which knocked him cold...
...Maxwell Anderson's new play, "The Eve of St. Mark," resolutely digs into the fundamental problems this war poses for everyone, particularly for the generation which must fight. Presenting the war with powerful directness, the play gives it meaning for each individual. A pleasant relief from the "all out" slush with which some business men, women's clubs, and just plain slackers rationalize their existence, it shows plainly that this "global" struggle is still a war in which young men chiefly die, and young women chiefly weep...
...characters are dangerously ordinary people, a farmer and his wife, their eldest son, his girl, a soldier from Brooklyn, an intellectual, etc. But Anderson's writing and the cast's understanding acting lift the play from the slough of folksy despond. Together they delicately steer the farmer's son through his promised year of military training and an unconsummated love affair, to a hero's death on Bataan without once approaching the level on which Hollywood would treat such a story. This story, after all, is very close to us. Raised during the twenty years of peace and pacifism...